Short-term loans, known colloquially as payday lending, never fails to elicit a big response — if not always a consistent one. Foes of the practice point to the high double and triple digit annual interest rates and consumers swept into never-ending cycles of debt as...
As a continent filled with still developing economies, Africa is rarely mentioned in the conversation of B2B payments innovation. But in Kenya, recent progress in the space not only reveals who the nation is looking to in order to implement its own policies but shows...
The U.S. Export-Import Bank has been the source of political schism in recent years, but last week, the future of the government export credit body landed in a new state of jeopardy. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy...
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A little over a generation ago — 28 years to be exact — about 100,000 Americans celebrated the Summer of Love by converging on San Francisco. At the same time, a much larger number of Americans watched the summer of love unfold on that era’s...
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This week was a busy one for Big Data. Oracle released its quarterly earnings report revealing impressive growth in its SaaS data analytics operations, predicted by analysts to soon outgrow current market leader Salesforce. At the same time, BlackBerry published its own quarterly figures, eyed...
An omnichannel platform gives consumers and businesses the ability to shop anywhere and at anytime, but this presents a unique challenge to the sellers expected to satisfy the demand for products across channels. PYMNTS sat down with Ahin Thomas, head of marketing at Symphony Commerce,...
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